A Week of Healthy Kids Meal Ideas

Coming up with ideas for what to feed the kids from breakfast through dinner (and those snack times in between!) can feel like such a challenge. To help, here are 7 days worth of healthy kids meal ideas.

Kids Meal Ideas

I know firsthand how it can often feel like you’re totally out of ideas for what to make the kids each day. The endlessness of feeding a family is real! Thankfully, I also know that simply seeing new ideas can help bust any of us out of a rut—so these seven sample days worth of kids meal ideas are here to help.

I’ve included a breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner for each day of a sample week. These are real meals and foods that I’ve served to my two year old, so know that you may need to adjust the specifics of how a food is served or the serving size for your own child. And I hope this is implied, but OF COURSE sub in similar prepared or purchased foods if and when you can’t make everything homemade.

How to Plan Kids Meals Step-by-Step

Before we jump into the specifics of each meal, here are a few tips to keep in mind.

Aim for variety over the course of the day and the week. Some days your kids may want more of one food group and that’s okay if you adjust what comes on days after.

Trust that your child knows their own hunger levels and don’t push extra bites if they truly aren’t hungry. (They’re the only ones in their bodies!)

Stick to a set schedule of meal times and don’t let them graze in between. This is the best way to ensure that they’ll actually be hungry for meals.

Depending on where your kiddo is with growth, hunger, and activity level, they may need or want a bedtime snack. That’s okay as long as they aren’t skipping dinner to get to a snack they prefer. If that’s happening, make the bedtime snack super boring—like a banana! Or save the rest of their dinner and offer it to them if they say they’re hungry before bed.

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